Trusted expertise in urban planning & building design
Space Syntax provides strategic, evidence-based consulting services in economics, planning, design, transport and property development.
Combining extensive global experience with robust and sophisticated technologies, we forecast the effects of planning and design decisions on the movement and interaction of people in buildings and urban areas.
We work to de-risk property investment decisions, showing how the layout of places can be optimised to enhance the social, economic and environmental value of developments. Using a highly graphic, data-rich and audience-engaging set of techniques, we help our clients achieve powerful results quickly.
Our track record includes some of the world’s most prestigious and challenging projects.
I know that these techniques work from the tough environment of practice. I love the world of analysis, observation, of research, but also passion, imprecision, the hunch. Space Syntax is the testing of the interaction of these opposing worlds.
Norman Foster
What we know and feel about cities is hard to put into words or images, still harder to enumerate. Space Syntax has the vocabulary, graphics and data to do this.
Paul Fisher Daily Telegraph
A natural solution made commercially obvious.
Simon Harris Simon Harris & Co
We realised Space Syntax were light years ahead of everybody else. This scheme will last for 200 years. We needed the best and the best is what we’ve got.
Councillor John Jowers Colchester Borough Council
It's totally clear to me when I see Space Syntax’s work that l believe in it.
Paul Murrain Urbanist
Space Syntax's analysis and design contribution helped unlock the scheme. The evidence they presented proved critical in promoting our design and convincing people that it would work.
Neil Porter Gustafson Porter Landscape Architects, speaking about the redesign of Nottingham’s Old Market Square
The perspective you brought to our campus masterplanning exercise was invaluable.
Space Syntax is the best thing we’ve come upon in a long time.
Dean Wolf Executive Vice President of Auraria Higher Education Center in Denver
I am very interested in what Space Syntax can do. Their techniques allow people who don’t understand architectural plans to enter into design conversations.
UK National Health Service nurse at public consultation event
Urban Value
Toolkit for planners and designers that demonstrates how physical and spatial factors influence social and economic value in urban centres.
On June 15, 2011 Tim Stonor of Space Synatx in London, England gave a presentation at the National Capital Planning Commission on spatial layout efficiency.
UCL Advances Entrepreneurial Spirit Award
The inaugural UCL Enterprise Awards, held at the UCL Bloomsbury Theatreon 1st May 2008, attracted leading figures from the university and business, as students and staff were recognised for their achievements in entrepreneurialism and innovation.
Pedestrian agents
Space syntax software agents move through a simulated IKEA store, reflecting the influence of environmental design on consumer perception and movement.
Multi-scale spatial accessibility analysis
This video highlights which streets have higher (red then orange) and lower (green then blue) levels of spatial accessibility and how this pattern changes between the local network and the global.
General practice brochure
Space is the machine
A configurational theory of architecture
Going with the flow
The Guardian
Spatial sustainability in cities
Bill Hillier
An evidence-based approach to crime & urban design